Kids' Menus Called Minefields Of Fat

It's the same for adult entrees at restaurants. You may be shocked to know how many calories are in that chicken salad. You think you may be taking the healthy route with ordering that salad, but typically it's the dressing that can pack on the calories/fat. It's also better to eat at home, that way you can control how much fat & calories goes into your meals.

Ever notice that fat people tend to have fat kids? The parents don't change how or what they eat, therefore the kids grow up eating what mom and dad eat. It's really a shame. I have an obese inlaw that's married to an obese man. Sad thing is their toddler is going to grow up obese or hopefully just over weight. They don't feed their kid fruits or veggies for snacks, instead he gets chips or candy. Even at dinner they leave a lot of fat on his meat. Poor kid.

August 01, 2008
Looks like fried chicken. Tastes like fried chicken. It IS fried chicken! But with half the fat!

I love food, eating, cooking, reading about either one. As products editor of a national education magazine, however, rarely do I write professionally about food. Unless there happens to be a dramatic development in food technology, relevant to school districts. And that's what we have here.
Food chemistry company Proteus Industries literally made headlines just a couple years ago when they developed a patented process to reduce the fat in fried foods, called Nutrilean. It's a process of coating chicken, fish sticks or whatever else you want to fry with its own proteins, creating a barrier that blocks fat absorption by up to 50%-70%. But it still tastes much the same.
Just over a week ago Proteus announced at the School Nutrition Association's Annual National Conference their corporate partnership with Sunrise Foods, school lunch poultry company, to target the school foodservice sector, which is in the middle of a sea change towards healthier fare due to public outcry and federal mandates. American schools serve as many meals as McDonald's every year, so that's a big market.
The way I see it, there are two approaches to approaching healthier food for your district: attempt to change students' eating habits, or change the food they want to eat anyway. Nutrilean is obviously the latter. And perhaps the best approach of all is to cover all your bases and do them both simultaneously. Now here's the tough question: do you tell them it's healthier, possibly convincing them it doesn't taste as good, and losing the placebo effect? In other words...are you lying about your frying?

man, i've been eatin at the wrong restaurants.

can i have a kiddiemenu-chicken bites with extra cholesterol?
slather some of that sauce on there.
oh yeah, that's the stuff!
throw the ribs right on top
you with that plate of mozz sticks,, get back here!

Here's an idea - if you're looking for a healthy option for your children - try cooking at home! What a novel idea! If you don't know that eating out is less than healthy, your first concern shouldn't be the calories, it should be how stupid you are.

Unbelievable wrote:

Here's an idea - if you're looking for a healthy option for your children - try cooking at home! What a novel idea! If you don't know that eating out is less than healthy, your first concern shouldn't be the calories, it should be how stupid you are.

that's preposterous. next you'll be talking about feeding them organic vegetables and increasing their activity levels to ward off obesity!

republican_bob wrote:

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that's preposterous. next you'll be talking about feeding them organic vegetables and increasing their activity levels to ward off obesity!

You're right - how dare I expect that they will put down the video game and go outside and play to get some fresh air, exercise, and develop social skills by interacting with other kids.

now that's just crazy-talk